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System Reviews: A checkup for SharePoint
2010
Stephen WilsonSharePoint Engineer
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Stephen Wilson• Blog:
• http://SharePointBitMe.com• Twitter:
• http://twitter.com/StephenTech911• Cincinnati, OH• Employed at Rackspace (formerly by
SharePoint911)
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Contact Info
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Housekeeping Please turn off all electronic devices or set them
to vibrate. If you must take a phone call, please do so in the
hall so as not to disturb others.
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Agenda (Hint: There isn’t one)
Agenda (Hint: There isn’t one)
• Why System Reviews are a good idea. • When should System Reviews be done?• What is a SharePoint System Review?• How they are more than just maintenance?
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If It Ain’t Broke…• You have just been lucky!
• SharePoint is not a Complainer• Just because you didn’t upgrade doesn’t
mean nothing has changed.• http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/
ms11-074 (September 2011)
• http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms12-050 (July 2012)
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Service Packs and Cumulative Updates Service Packs
Should be a Goal. Repeat after me. We all have test Farms.
Cumulative Updates What’s in it for you? That being said: The sad truth about SharePoint
2010 SP1
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It Works, but is it Right?• Service Accounts
• One is not enough • http://toddklindt.com/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=23
7 • Service Applications
• They are there, but are they doing anything?• User Profile Service Application
• http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee721049.aspx• http://www.harbar.net/articles/sp2010ups.aspx
• Search Crawls• Web Analytics
• http://technet.microsoft.com/library/gg266382%28office.14%29.aspx
• http://www.toddklindt.com/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=250
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Is Your Farm Speaking to You?
• Incoming Mail and Outgoing mail• Incoming
• http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262947.aspx
• http://sharepointgeorge.com/2010/configuring-incoming-email-sharepoint-2010/
• Outgoing• http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263462.as
px• http://sharepointgeorge.com/2010/configuring-outgoin
g-email-sharepoint-2010/
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What is SharePoint Hiding?• Timer Jobs
• One piece of PowerShell• Get-SPTimerJob | select name | ForEach-Object
{Get-SPTimerJob $_.name} | ForEach-Object {$_.historyentries} | Where-Object {$_.status -eq "Failed"} | select JobDefinitionTitle, StartTime, ErrorMessage > c:\FailedTimerJobs.txt
• Some things that can go wrong in SharePoint will only show up here or in an exhaustive search of the logs.
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Speaking of SharePoint Logs• C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web
Server Extensions\14\Logs• http://archive.msdn.microsoft.com/ULSViewer/• http://sharepointlogviewer.codeplex.com/
• Correlation IDs• Google or Bing can’t help you• http://blogs.technet.com/b/wbaer/archive/2010/05/01/correlation
-ids-in-sharepoint-2010.aspx• Correlation IDs are UNDERRATED!
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Event Logs
• Most of the Action is in the Application logs.• My lottery number is 6-39-8-55-86 (6398 5586)• The Security Log is especially important for
authentication• There is a lot of Stuff, what is really important?
• Errors and Warnings• Repetition and Timing• Event ID numbers are usually searchable, but don’t
forget the error messages.
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Web ApplicationsSite Collections &Alternate Access Mappings
• Do you know what each one is? • Can any of them be eliminated (after a backup!) ?• Can, or should, any of your content be split up?
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Back To SQL• Post service pack 1 the Content DB limit is 4TB (still
200GB for Collaboration)• Does that really help you?• Are SQL and SharePoint a good place for an archive?
• SQL Backups are King for keeping your content safe. Schedule them, use them, love them.
• Database Management• http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc825329.aspx• Database types and management
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc678868.aspx
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Why bother?• SharePoint does more than you can see at first
glance.• The Future is almost here:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/hh973397.aspx• A well maintained Farm is much easier to
upgrade.• A small investment for what could be a big
return.
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Final Thoughts• A System Review is about more than errors and
patches.• SharePoint, SharePoint Saturdays and the
Microsoft Community.
•Thank You!
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Questions?
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